Islamabad: During the first two months (July, August) of the current fiscal year 2024-25, there is a trend of reduction in the consumption of imported food grains in the country, during this period, imports of various types of food grains decreased by 33 percent to 245 million dollars. has gone
According to the report issued by the Federal Statistical Office, in the first two months of this fiscal year, the food import bill has decreased by 18% to 1.6 billion dollars, while the milk import bill has decreased by 23% to 1.9 million dollars. Apart from this, the import of tea leaves has decreased from 46451 tonnes to 38847 tonnes.
According to the report, the import bill of tea decreased from 11 million dollars to 979 million dollars in two months, the import of soybeans decreased by 52% to 2 million 22 million dollars in 2 months.
According to statistics, imports of palm oil decreased by 10% to 495.9 million dollars, imports of pulses decreased by 21% to 133.3 million dollars.